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Accessible to trained users on the booking system. Session duration 1 h, max 8 sessions per week. Out-of-hours access can be allowed in exceptional cases. Official web page
Characteristics and available clamps:
- 500 N and 10 N load cells
- Video Extensometer SVE2
- Tensile pneumatic clamps
- Compressive plates
- 3-point bending clamp
- Peel-off clamp
- Penetration clamp for fabric testing (custom)
- Micro-compression (custom), 20 and 15 mm
- Confined compression for biological samples
Some documents are available to download and in hardcopy for reference purpose: a quick guide, a guide to cell switching and an advanced guide on the use of bending clamp, of the test profiler methods and of the paper frame method for weak materials.
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Accessible to trained users on the booking system. Session duration 4 h, max 4 sessions per week. Out-of-hours access can be allowed in exceptional cases. Official web page
Characteristics and available clamps:
- Tensile clamp
- Compressive clamp
- 3-point bending clamp
- Cantilever clamps (35 mm, 20 mm)
- Fiber tension clamp
- Submersion compression clamp
- Submersion tension clamp
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Accessible to trained users through email contact. Session duration 4 h, max 4 sessions per week. Out-of-hours access not allowed. Official web page
Characteristics and available tips:
- Ultrananoindentation head
- Berkovich tip
- Spherical tip (100 um)
- Flat punch tips (10, 20, 100 um)
- Micro-combi indentation-scratch head
- Vickers tip
- Knoop tip
- Ball holders (1 mm, 2 mm)
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Interferometric-based indenter for characterization of soft materials, also in liquid environment
Accessible to trained users on the booking system. Session duration from 1h up, max 8 hours booked. Out-of-hours access not allowed.
official webpage
Characteristics and features:
- Combined with an Optical Fluorescence Microscope
- Broad choice of tips size and stiffness
- Measures Young's modulus from 100 Pa to 1 GPa
- Displacement, indentation or load control
- Indentation mapping function
- NanoDMA
Materials Characterization